Best way for social networking in rails

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Hey

Which is the best way in rails for making a social networking site.?

Thanks

amritpalpathak.blogspot.com

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BDD :slight_smile:

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The best way to make a social networking site… is to actually start making a social networking site.

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Really?

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:wink:

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I meant is there any good cms or gem etc for it ?

Thanks

amritpalpathak.blogspot.com

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Im not sure if I should post in this topic because I have the feeling its just gonna end up in another one of your "help me do this" threads..

Anyway you might want to look at these:

https://github.com/mauricio/sample_social_network https://github.com/jlebrech/OhNoNotAnotherSocialNetwork

there is another one made by Michael Hartl the guy who made the rails tutorial webpage (which I strongly recommend you look at this time in case you still havent).

You might also want to google what BDD really stands for.

Regards Stefano

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I’m obviously making a lot of assumptions here, but I’ve heard it’s pretty common for developers in India to be herded through diploma mill tech schools and then realize after they get hired that they actually don’t know how to write code. Well, I guess that does sort of happen here in the US too, but it always kind of bums me out to see these “how do I build a complex application” posts.

Jarin

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Sigh. You had to say it, didn't you? :stuck_out_tongue:

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So, this "space shuttle" deal -- is there, like, a kit or something?

I can haz?

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Why certainly.

   gem can haz spaceshuttle

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You might want to check out https://github.com/ging

Seems to be a good start for a social network

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Make your own. I made a rails server for a social driven app in about a day.

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The Code Boutique

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Hello Hassan,

good question. I found 4 ways when I tried: 1. EngineY - Seems exactly for this goal but I dunno much. 2. LovdByLess - it's fancy but not upgraded yet. You might wanna upgrade it yourself )I tried, writing a new one is easier for sure). 3. Insoshi https://github.com/gezope/insoshi 4. Your own social network. I must say this is still the best idea. Good practise and you can have controll all the time.

It doesn't mean you need to develop the whole app yourself. You might wanna use many gems like authlogic or devise or omniauth for authentication (check Railscasts for more info), etc.

There's 2 CMS which I can suggest too: RefineryCMS and LocomotiveCMS. Refinery has great community and there's lots of features already done. Really easy to extend.

I would definitely use Refinery for a social network with my own code.

Good luck, Zoli

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Erm, thanks, but it wasn't my question. At the moment I'd much prefer seppuku to trying to implement YASN, in any form. :slight_smile:

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I don't know which is more pointless in 21st century, YASN or CMS. But hey, even Google's doing it. :slight_smile: